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Install Wireshark 2.6.5 Network Analyzer On Linux Ubuntu

By Sourabh /  Category: How To, Ubuntu

Install Wireshark 2.6.5 network packet analyzer for Linux Ubuntu. Wireshark is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development and education

Wireshark 2.6.5

Wireshark has a rich feature set which includes the following:

  • Deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, with more being added all the time
  • Live capture and offline analysis
  • Standard three-pane packet browser
  • Multi-platform: Runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and many others
  • Captured network data can be browsed via a GUI, or via the TTY-mode TShark utility
  • The most powerful display filters in the industry
  • Rich VoIP analysis
  • Read/write many different capture file formats: tcpdump (libpcap), Pcap NG, Catapult DCT2000, Cisco Secure IDS iplog, Microsoft Network Monitor, Network General Sniffer® (compressed and uncompressed), Sniffer® Pro, and NetXray®, Network Instruments Observer, NetScreen snoop, Novell LANalyzer, RADCOM WAN/LAN Analyzer, Shomiti/Finisar Surveyor, Tektronix K12xx, Visual Networks Visual UpTime, WildPackets EtherPeek/TokenPeek/AiroPeek, and many others
  • Capture files compressed with gzip can be decompressed on the fly
  • Live data can be read from Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, PPP/HDLC, ATM, Bluetooth, USB, Token Ring, Frame Relay, FDDI, and others (depending on your platform)
  • Decryption support for many protocols, including IPsec, ISAKMP, Kerberos, SNMPv3, SSL/TLS, WEP, and WPA/WPA2
  • Coloring rules can be applied to the packet list for quick, intuitive analysis
  • Output can be exported to XML, PostScript®, CSV, or plain text

What’s New

  • The Windows installers now ship with Qt 5.9.7. Previously they shipped with Qt 5.9.5.

Bug Fixes

The following vulnerabilities have been fixed:

  • wnpa-sec-2018-51 The Wireshark dissection engine could crash.
  • wnpa-sec-2018-52 The DCOM dissector could crash.
  • wnpa-sec-2018-53 The LBMPDM dissector could crash.
  • wnpa-sec-2018-54 The MMSE dissector could go into an infinite loop.
  • wnpa-sec-2018-55 The IxVeriWave file parser could crash.
  • wnpa-sec-2018-56 The PVFS dissector could crash.
  • wnpa-sec-2018-57 The ZigBee ZCL dissector could crash.

The following bugs have been fixed:

  • VoIP Calls dialog doesn’t include RTP stream when preparing a filter.
  • Wireshark installs on macOS with permissions for /Library/Application Support/Wireshark that are too restrictive.
  • Closing Enabled Protocols dialog crashes wireshark.
  • Unable to Export Objects → HTTP after sorting columns.
  • DNS Response to NS query shows as malformed packet.
  • Encrypted Alerts corresponds to a wrong selection in the packet bytes pane.
  • Wireshark crashes/asserts with Qt 5.11.1 and assert/debugsymbols enabled.
  • ESP will not decode since 2.6.2 – works fine in 2.4.6 or 2.4.8.
  • text2pcap generates malformed packets when TCP, UDP or SCTP headers are added together with IPv6 header.
  • Wireshark tries to decode EAP-SIM Pseudonym Identity.
  • Infinite read loop when extcap exits with error and error message.
  • MATE unable to extract fields for PDU.
  • Malformed Packet: SV.
  • OPC UA Max nesting depth exceeded for valid packet.
  • TShark 2.6 does not print GeoIP information.
  • ISUP (ANSI) packets malformed in WS versions later than 2.4.8.
  • Handover candidate enquire message not decoded.
  • TShark piping output in a cmd or PowerShell prompt stops working when GeoIP is enabled.
  • ICMPv6 with routing header incorrectly placed.
  • IEEE 802.11 Vendor Specific fixed fields display as malformed packets.
  • text2pcap -4 and -6 option should require -i as well.
  • text2pcap direction sensitivity does not affect dummy ethernet addresses.
  • MLE security suite display incorrect.
  • Message for incorrect IPv4 option lengths is incorrect.
  • TACACS+ dissector does not properly reassemble large accounting messages.
  • NLRI of S-PMSI A-D BGP route not being displayed.

Install

You can install Wireshark 2.6.5 using the following command and install it using package installer

sudo wget https://2.na.dl.wireshark.org/src/wireshark-2.6.5.tar.xz

Before you install Wireshark 2.6.5 network packet analyzer, make sure the security and updates repositories are enabled in Software & Updates -> Updates.